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“In addition to the usual international crime syndicates, Nazi war criminals, and power hungry dictators, U.N.C.L.E. also battled THRUSH, a secret society of mad scientists, megalomanic industrialists, and corrupt government officials who held the Nietzschean belief that because of their superior intelligence, wealth, ambition and position, they were entitled to rule the world.”
— Cynthia W. Walker, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Encyclopedia of Television, 2nd Ed., Museum of Broadcast Communication
On April 30, 1945, Personal Secretary to the Führer Martin Bormann was with Adolf Hitler in the Führerbunker in Berlin. On May 1, Bormann left the Führerbunker with SS doctor Ludwig Stumpfegger, Hitler Youth leader Artur Axmann and Hitler’s pilot Hans Baur, attempting to sneak past the Soviet Army. Axmann, who claimed Bormann and Stumpfegger died during the escape sometime after 1:00 AM on May 2, made it to the Bavarian Alps and hid under the alias “Erich Siewert.” He was captured in December 1945 while organizing an underground Nazi movement. Bormann’s death was never confirmed. A vast organization known only as T.H.R.U.S.H. supposedly rose out of the fall of Nazism and was founded by a high-ranking Nazi official along with Bormann — both of whom had fled to Argentina with an enormous amount of financial wealth, including stolen gold and precious works of art. In 1967, the New York City headquarters of T.H.R.U.S.H. was located at 555 Felton Avenue.